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The focus of this work is on those passages in the New Testament of the Bible which carry anti-Jewish messages. This apparent anti-Semitism may occur through mistranslation, misquotation or misapplication of citations from the Hebrew Bible, or through direct hostility to Jews and their religion.

This is a comprehensive review of sleep (measurement, homeostatic, rhythmic, physiology, sleep in animals), dreaming (the nature of dreams, dream theories, dream interpretation), sleep disorders, and functions of sleep and dreams. It is an ideal text for undergraduates in Psychology, Biology, Nursing, and related areas.

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society. Sunday A. Aigbe considers the Christian factor as it relates to the sociopolitical responsibility and development in Nigeria and identifies ways in which Christianity can serve as an agent of change and promote unity within Nigeria.

These two works belong to that group of books written by one of this century's fiercest and most devoted child advocates. In the first, Korczak uses fiction to reveal the joys and sorrows of a child, a ten-year-old, juxtaposing them against the feelings of an adult as they both react to two days of adventure spent together.

The papers in this volume contribute to a more precise assessment of the interconnections between England and Scandinavia during the period from the establishment of the Danelaw to the Norman Conquest. The essays fall into three groups of concern: history, myth, and the language of poetry.

Today, hypnotism is recognized as an effective therapeutic tool and its importance is growing. This book shows how hypnotism reached its present status of acceptance, through two centuries of pioneering effort by several fascinating personalities.

This book is the beginning of a much-needed discussion about the experiences and beliefs of Irish priests. It provides a cultural analysis of these men, including the diverse and oftentimes contradictory sides they find themselves on regarding philosophical, theological, and pastoral issues.

This volume is a study of geopolitics and economic interaction. It provides opportunities for maintaining global stability and peace and interfaces with western concepts of continuity via the World Trade Organization and other globalization approaches.

This book examines how, through the mediation of past history and current cultural and professional experience, selected Iranian professionals who came to the United States after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, created new identities and possibilities for the future.

Iris Exiled is a critical history of wonder from the Bible and Homer to modern times. Dennis Quinn examines the subject in relation to various disciplines and modes of discourse- philosophy, theology, poetry, art myth, history, rhetoric, psychology, education, and modern science.

This work examines the mid-life crisis through the perspectives of analytical psychology and through existential theology. Research suggests that 80 per cent of men suffer from this crisis and that it is not limited to any culture or period of history.

Copublished with the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Man and Message provides a practical method of analyzing texts based on a cognitive, multilevel model of meaning presented in simple, non-technical language for a wide audience.

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n a critical yet sympathetic examination of Richard Rorty's philosophy, the author uses the biblical figure of 'The Stranger' to explore some ethical tensions in Rorty's affirmation of a liberal polity.

Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, this text aims to compare and contrast the historical roots, goals, strategies, organizational structures and current activities of Palestinian and Israeli opponents of any mutual compromise.

This work provides a historical approach to the sometimes controversial issues in the life of C.G. Jung, and examines controversies such as his flirtation with Nazism from a variety of perspectives.

The Principal's Companion is a book consisting of five sets of activities designed to simulate tasks similar to those typically encountered in the principalship.

This work shows why footnotes are valuable as a part of writing in scientific and historical research and how to create footnotes which are clear and helpful to the reader. It describes cases in which footnoting is appropriate and gives examples drawn from a variety of writings.

This work on conversational analysis includes coverage of topics like: two ways in which numbers are significant for talk-interaction; conversational laughter; telenegotiating as a social accomplishment; and "mm hm" tokens as interactional devices in psychotherapeutic in-take interviews.

The Secret of Borges approaches the complex, labyrinthine writings of Jorge Luis Borges from a Freudian perspective. The author searches for connections between the works of Borges by analyzing his writing and gathering information on his life from various sources, including in-depth interviews with those who worked as assistants for the blind writer.

Bernard Lonergan's Insight: A Study of Human Understanding is one of the most profound and challenging books of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive explanation, commentary and criticism of this work, which no one, according to the author, has previously attempted.